Employability

What jobs do you think live sound has connection with?

Performance, live sound engineer, and tech assistant to help with problems they might come across. Audio Technician. You could also call a DJ (performer) a job role in live sound. They have to make sure that everything sounds great and mixed tracks are in time and the levels are right on their decks. It’s more technical than just plugging in an instrument and playing and setting the levels. You press all types of buttons so it is more complex. So I guess you could kind of call a DJ a job title in the music business

What sort of pay might you get?

$60,000 to $120,000 + or in English money £41,634 to £83,268. However it wouldn’t be that much over here in the UK. You would probably earn around £20,000 above in the UK for these job titles. (Anon., 2016)

What skills and knowledge do you need?

A skill that you will need to know for is good hearing. This is so you know the average to exact levels that everything has to be set at, and then you can also pan everything and just make everything sound great together overall.

What day to day activities might you undertake as a live sound engineer?

When being a sound engineer, you will have different activities that you will have to participate in. one in which will be making sure you are on top of everything in a way as such that you know where everything is on the control desks. You will be in charge in making sure that everything technical wise works the way that it should, to the quality standard that it should sound. Here are a few that I found that best describes it (Anon., 2016)

Look after and repair equipment

Unload, set up, dismantle and load equipment at each venue when on tour

Choose suitable microphones and equipment

Position and rig up microphones

What working conditions would you have, hours per week and working pattern?

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